Grodno State
Astrautsova Sviatlana Alexandravna
Experience:
Graduated from the Belarusian State University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Genetics, specialty genetics of microorganisms.
At the beginning of her scientific career, she worked at the Department of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Minsk).
1986-1999 – junior researcher, then scientific researcher, and since 1998 – senior researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Enzymology of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Grodno).
1988-1990 – Postgraduate student at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
In 1990, after defending PhD thesis, received the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences in the specialty 03.01.04 «Biochemistry».
1991-1998 – work at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus, research area: multi-enzyme complexes of 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases. Area of scientific interests: bacteriology, enzymology, glycobiology, immunology.
Since 1999 – Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology named after S.I. Gelberg at EI «GrSMI».
1999-2020 – head of the educational part of the department.
Until 2020 – QMS manager of the department.
Until September 2016, was a member of the Board of the Faculty of General medicine at EI «GrSMU».
At the department provides teaching of microbiology to 2nd and 3rd year students of the Faculty of foreign students with English, also provides international cooperation.
Member of the educational and methodological committee of the Faculty of Foreign Students at EI «GrSMU».
Achievements:
Since 1999, regularly taking advanced training courses at the EI «RIHE».
The last courses were being in 2018, topic – «Implementation of competence–based learning models in higher education institutions: the Bologna context and the Belarusian experience».
Participates in university, national, and international conferences.
Was among the organizers of international scientific forums and schools, including:
- Scientific School of the Royal Chemical Society «Viral Glycobiology: infection and therapy» (Oxford, UK),
- Scientific School of the European Molecular Biological Society "GLYCODEV 2007" «Glycoscience and development» (Lille, France),
- Scientific school of the European organization «Glycoforum»: «Glycomarkers and disease» (Vezhba, Poland),
- Scientific conferences and scientific schools of the European organization «Euroglicoforum» – «From fundamental science to global markets» and meetings of the European Organization for Cooperation in Science and Technology (Berlin, Germany),
supported by international scientific organizations and foundations, such as the British Royal Society, the European Molecular Biological Society, the European Science Foundation, INTAS, NIC-Grant for Civil Research and Development, etc.
Initiator of international scientific cooperation in the field of intestinal dysbiosis between the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology named after S.I. Gelberg and the Institute of Glycobiology of Oxford University, also with the Bialystok Medical Academy.
Was the head of the grant that funded the scientific research «The role of glycosylation of mucins in bacterial colonization of the human intestine», which was carried out from 1999 to 2004, and in 2001 received the support of the British Royal Society.
Within the framework of this cooperation, organized regular visits and lectures at Grodno State Medical University by leading scientists from Oxford University – Dr. Tony Merry, a member of the Royal Society of Chemists, and Professor Pauline Rudd.
Initiator of the signing of a cooperation agreement between EI «GrSMU» and the Higher School of Informatics and Business (Lomzha, Poland).
Since 2014, has been a member of the Tempus University International program.
Initiator of cooperation between EI «GrSMU» and the Higher School of Informatics and Business (Lomzha, Poland) within the framework of the international Erasmus program (2016).
Repeatedly delivered lectures at Oxford and Bialystok Universities, as well as lecture cycles at the Medical Institute of the Higher School of Informatics and Business (2018-2019, Lomzha, Poland).
Scientific achievements:
Currently the field of scientific research: biochemical, immunological and microbiological aspects of the study of probiotic bacteria.
Author of more than 100 publications, including 70 scientific papers (18 of which are articles, chapters in monographs and reviews published in leading scientific publications abroad, including those indexed in Medline and cited in international scientific publications); 29 educational and methodological works, including 15 in English for the Faculty of foreign students with the English language of education (2 teaching aids received the EMD stamp) and 6 electronic educational and methodological complexes (3 of which are in English).
Author of a standard program on the academic discipline "Microbiology, virology, immunology" for the specialty 1-79 01 02 «Pediatrics» (2022).
Reviewer of the foreign scientific publication «Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine» cited in Medline, and also reviewed candidate dissertations, scientific articles, teaching aids and electronic educational and methodical complexes.
Repeatedly awarded Honorary diplomas of the Rector's Office and the trade union committee of the EI «GrSMU».
Most frequently cited publications:
- Glycoproteins // Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. – 2010.
- Alternative approaches to antiviral treatments: focusing on glycosylation as a target for antiviral therapy // Biotechnology and Applied Biochemestry. – 2010.
- Glycans in evolution and development // EMBO reports. – 2008.
- Chemical and enzymatic release of glycans from glycoproteins. Chapter 2. Methods Mol. Biol. In “Capillary Electrophoresis of Carbohydrates. – Ed. By P.Thibault, S.Hondo, Humania Press Inc. – 2003.
- Chemical modification of lysine and arginine residues of bovine heart 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase: Effect on the enzyme activity and regulation //Acta Biochimica Polonica. – 1998.